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I consider this a very important piece of 1960s counter culture ephemera. Black Power Newsletter of the Black Panthers Vol. 1 No. 6, May 1967 with the boxing icon Mohammed Ali cover saluting his resistance to the draft. The provocative handwritten headline of "Ali Defies Whitey's Draft - Says HELL NO!" adds to the power of this apparently photocopied newsletter. This came from Oakland California. This dates to before the Black Panthers went to the newspaper format, and I can not imagine many were made and even less still exist, never mind in this condition. A very Historic American piece.
i met ali in the 1970ties got is autograph at the holiday seaton burn north east british isles told the teachers at school he had personaly asked me there wee white lye l.o.l
but it got me there and had a bird book which he signed & years back i passed in to my wonderburg son storm i,m so proud of as present some years back
my brave father loved ali ,, my daughter ocean also i,m so proud of who wants a picture i painted ,, but i only paint every 10 years or so ,,cos aint very good
my father brian god bless him was great artist a hard man but ever so kind man his profession self employed builder
thank you hippy for memorys the windmills of my mind
I remember those days HA, schools in NY were very racially divided and there was a lot of violence from the Panthers, it wasn't a fun time. Glad things are better today. Ali was truly the greatest, I loved him